Kael received both reports before the second bell of the morning.
The dispatch rider had ridden through the night from the Ravine sector, carrying Brekk's assessment and Drakk's supplementary notation in the same document case. Kael's camp was at the highland southern boundary, six miles from the build site and fifteen from the Ravine's northern watch point. He read both documents by firelight in the command tent with his map spread on the ground.
He did not read them separately. He read Drakk's report first, then Brekk's assessment, then Drakk's report again with Brekk's assessment alongside it. Reading them together was the correct method because both documents described separate portions of the same operational picture, and a partial picture read as a complete one produced the wrong analysis.
